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Letter "S" » Sydney Smith Quotes
«Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Friendship,
Life
| Keywords:
existence, fortified, fortifies, fortifying, friendships
«Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Regret,
Time
| Keywords:
inconsolable, regret, tempered, tempering
«Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them.»
«In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
composing, every other, General Idea, general rule, General will, pen, vigor, writing style
«What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Life,
Mathematics
| Keywords:
arithmetic, horrors, scene
«Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
Anything Else, ill nature, intended, intending, succeed, ten, ten thousand, thousand, thousand times, worse
«A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| Keywords:
comfortable, Great Houses, immediately, ranks
«The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Performance,
Possibility
| Keywords:
celebration, celebrations, contain, The Celebration
«Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Poverty
| Keywords:
confoundedly, disgrace, inconvenient, poverty, to a man
«Avoid shame, but do not seek glory, nothing is so expensive as glory»
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